Climate Change

The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.

With the traditional bad guys of the piece - government and big business - now showing signs of embracing the climate change agenda, we have to ask why there is not a surge of support from the Great British public.

The head of the International Monetary Fund proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women hit hard by the effects of climate change -- drought, floods, sea level rise and crop failure -- gathered on Monday to plan a Capitol Hill push for U.S. legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Women in West Africa have called for integration of women in the global effort to arrest the adverse effect of climate change on humanity.

The impacts of climate change on natural resources could cost the Namibian economy between one per cent and six per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) annually over the next 20 years.

Delta State has set the pace in the global actions on climate change by being the first in the country to formulate a "Climate Change Policy" aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Although Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to scientists and development specialists. The question now is what to do about it before the fallout has disastrous consequences.

As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi's southern district of Chikhwawa.

On January 30 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Managing Director of the IMF, announced a possible new initiative - a multi-billion dollar Green Fund (that name is popular ? see below) that would help developing countries finance the measures needed to tackle climate change ? possibly with partial funding through issuance by the IMF of new Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

The effects of climate change particularly in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly taking toll on the social and economic well-being of people of the region. Having realised these, some top faith leaders in the region have resolved to explore religion in tackling the menace.

Prof. Jimmy Adegoke, chair, Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri in the United States, has called on the National Assembly to step up the passage of a Bill to establish a commission on climate change in the country.

Kenyan meteorologists are joining forces with traditional rainmakers to deliver communities weather forecasts as climate change takes hold.

Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.

Berlin: Four days ahead of the G8 summit in Japan a new research examines the climate performance of G8 nations and five emerging economies, and reveals the G8 countries are lagging behind in the race against climate change.

None of the leading industrialized nations are currently on target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avoid the threshold level for unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change, according to new research into national policies and performance.